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[Amphibious]

Pool Shark, how many calories do you eat a day on average holmes?

 

[Warren Moon]

Whats your wieght currently

 

[The ADD]

Update?

 

[Ohms Law]

Big Homie you still alive?

 

[Pool_Shark]

Lol after my last post in March I completely got off my diet. My drinking escalated and I just gave up. I'm not sure how it happened but all the weight I had lost came right back on. Got back up to 264 or somewhere around there. I almost ended up getting divorced and was kinda lost for a minute. My wife had to have a talk with me about my drinking cause it got really bad. Basically gave me an ultimatum. After that I told her I'd stop and wouldn't even bring up alcohol to her at all. That was towards the end of July. Slowly I started running again, I also refused to believe that fast food was cheaper than going grocery shopping. I forced myself to go grocery shopping. I started eating better again and just kept running. At first I was doubting myself, saying I was just going to screw up and quit again. The key to me being consistent has been quitting alcohol. It got out of control and now that I haven't drank for 2 months coming up on 3 I'm pretty proud of myself. It's funny cause when you're in the middle of an addiction it's impossible to see an escape. Then you step away from it for a few weeks and it's not as hard as you thought. Most sober I've been since middle school. I keep learning more about weight loss, counting calories, and why it's important to eat and not skip meals. On days I just run I keep my calories at 1500 and on days I lift I eat 1800. Right now I'm at 240. I know for sure I have to stay consistent cause this can't be good for my heart. Once I get down to 180 I'll bump my calories up.

I didn't update this thread cause I was embarrassed. I failed didn't feel like showing my face around here for a few months. I just made a bunch of assumptions in my head.

a video that helped me understand some basics for losing weight

 

[The ADD]

Lol after my last post in March I completely got off my diet. My drinking escalated and I just gave up. I'm not sure how it happened but all the weight I had lost came right back on. Got back up to 264 or somewhere around there. I almost ended up getting divorced and was kinda lost for a minute. My wife had to have a talk with me about my drinking cause it got really bad. Basically gave me an ultimatum. After that I told her I'd stop and wouldn't even bring up alcohol to her at all. That was towards the end of July. Slowly I started running again, I also refused to believe that fast food was cheaper than going grocery shopping. I forced myself to go grocery shopping. I started eating better again and just kept running. At first I was doubting myself, saying I was just going to screw up and quit again. The key to me being consistent has been quitting alcohol. It got out of control and now that I haven't drank for 2 months coming up on 3 I'm pretty proud of myself. It's funny cause when you're in the middle of an addiction it's impossible to see an escape. Then you step away from it for a few weeks and it's not as hard as you thought. Most sober I've been since middle school. I keep learning more about weight loss, counting calories, and why it's important to eat and not skip meals. On days I just run I keep my calories at 1500 and on days I lift I eat 1800. Right now I'm at 240. I know for sure I have to stay consistent cause this can't be good for my heart. Once I get down to 180 I'll bump my calories up.

I didn't update this thread cause I was embarrassed. I failed didn't feel like showing my face around here for a few months. I just made a bunch of assumptions in my head.

a video that helped me understand some basics for losing weight

Don't be fooled man, everybody who is doing this and not getting paid struggles in some way. It's all relative to the person.

Congrats on the progress

 

[Pool_Shark]

Things are still going good. week after week the weight keeps coming off. Sometimes I do get frustrated though. Especially after a really hard workout or a long ass run. After I finish I look at my body and still see the same flabby shyt just a little smaller. I keep telling myself to ignore that stuff. Ignore the mirror. My number keeps going down on the scale (will post weight later), and my clothes are fitting a lot better but still you want to see those gains. When the frustration hits I have to pull myself back down it took a long time to gain the weight and fortunately it will take less then a year for it to come off. Other people have it way harder and losing a lot of fat is one the easiest things to accomplish it just takes patience. Stop being a bytch and put in the work. I also went to a actual gym for the first time. I'm use to working out alone but I went at the worst time and the place was packed. It's intimidating lifting around people that are all yolked up and then they hog up all the free weights. My wife and I are signing up though cause I want to get here in there so she can start accomplishing her goals (plus I get a discount and they have babysitting). An extra hour in there will also help my progress. The gym we're signing up at has memberships for 20$ a month for the both of us. That's one thing I learned. If you really want to get to a gym Groupon has a lot of good deals on gym memberships.

Has anyone tried having there own set up at home? I thought about buying a squat rack, a bench, some weights, and dumbbells. That's all I need really. I see it costing me all around 300$ I'm just not sure if it's worth or if I'm overdoing it.

Food wise I've got it under wraps. Usually I keep my calories around 1700-1800 a day. The only thing I have trouble with is waiting till 1 to eat breakfast I'll have a cup of black coffee at 10 and I'm good. I was able to find a food scale for 5 bucks at a yard sale. I don't use it on all my food but I do weigh certain things and it helps me be more accurate with how much meat to eat. I try different things with cooking too. It can get really boring eating chicken, rice, and vegetables every single night. That's been an added benefit of all of this. I've learned how to cook, very basic but I still get down. Going from not being able to cook an egg in any form to being able to prepare all my meals for the week is something I never thought I could do. Youtube was my teacher for the whole process. These are some of the videos that helped get a basic idea.





Fit men cook is a great channel with a lot of easy recipes and helpful advice



There's been a lot more videos when I think of them I'll post them. A good place for recipes and ideas is pintrest. Also you'd be surprised how much food can be cooked in a microwave if you find the stove intimidating. Being overweight is completely unnecessary and there really is no need for it. You just need a little control and you can still eat the foods you want.

 

[Pool_Shark]

Ever find yourself at that point where you're on the verge of breaking your diet? Right there at the edge thinking "fukk it I'll just eat the chips and cookies, I'm tired I'll just workout really hard tomorrow and skip today." . It's like a pull, sometimes you feel it and then other times there's no resistance and you breeze right through your goals but then those days show up where that voice pops up telling you quit. It's fine, take a break, have a beer. fukk that though you have to tune that voice out and keep your eyes on the prize

 

[The ADD]

Things are still going good. week after week the weight keeps coming off. Sometimes I do get frustrated though. Especially after a really hard workout or a long ass run. After I finish I look at my body and still see the same flabby shyt just a little smaller. I keep telling myself to ignore that stuff. Ignore the mirror. My number keeps going down on the scale (will post weight later), and my clothes are fitting a lot better but still you want to see those gains. When the frustration hits I have to pull myself back down it took a long time to gain the weight and fortunately it will take less then a year for it to come off. Other people have it way harder and losing a lot of fat is one the easiest things to accomplish it just takes patience. Stop being a bytch and put in the work. I also went to a actual gym for the first time. I'm use to working out alone but I went at the worst time and the place was packed. It's intimidating lifting around people that are all yolked up and then they hog up all the free weights. My wife and I are signing up though cause I want to get here in there so she can start accomplishing her goals (plus I get a discount and they have babysitting). An extra hour in there will also help my progress. The gym we're signing up at has memberships for 20$ a month for the both of us. That's one thing I learned. If you really want to get to a gym Groupon has a lot of good deals on gym memberships.

Has anyone tried having there own set up at home? I thought about buying a squat rack, a bench, some weights, and dumbbells. That's all I need really. I see it costing me all around 300$ I'm just not sure if it's worth or if I'm overdoing it.

Food wise I've got it under wraps. Usually I keep my calories around 1700-1800 a day. The only thing I have trouble with is waiting till 1 to eat breakfast I'll have a cup of black coffee at 10 and I'm good. I was able to find a food scale for 5 bucks at a yard sale. I don't use it on all my food but I do weigh certain things and it helps me be more accurate with how much meat to eat. I try different things with cooking too. It can get really boring eating chicken, rice, and vegetables every single night. That's been an added benefit of all of this. I've learned how to cook, very basic but I still get down. Going from not being able to cook an egg in any form to being able to prepare all my meals for the week is something I never thought I could do. Youtube was my teacher for the whole process. These are some of the videos that helped get a basic idea.





Fit men cook is a great channel with a lot of easy recipes and helpful advice



There's been a lot more videos when I think of them I'll post them. A good place for recipes and ideas is pintrest. Also you'd be surprised how much food can be cooked in a microwave if you find the stove intimidating. Being overweight is completely unnecessary and there really is no need for it. You just need a little control and you can still eat the foods you want.

Why are you waiting until 1pm to eat?

 

[Pool_Shark]

Why are you waiting until 1pm to eat?

I'm trying intermittent fasting. I know it might be bullshyt maybe I get some placebo results from it

 

[Pool_Shark]

I'm at 233. My birthday passed last week so I did end up going off my diet but I got right back on it. That's pretty much how it's been, like a switch I can turn on or off. When I do get really hungry to the point that I can't wait for my next meal I just eat whatever. Now I think of it as a reminder to up the calories in my meals cause I'll get too low. As long as I can be consistent and stay on track for the most part I'm okay. So I started losing weight earlier this year, gained it back and was sitting at around 268. I'm not sure if that's exact or more but for sure didn't weigh less than 265. From August (265) to now the end of October (233), I'm really happy with my success. Especially knowing that I was able to eat foods I liked without having to stress about it too much. If I want ice cream I'll have ice cream but now I'll plan for it so that I don't go too over my calories. Things like that. 90% of the time I'm disciplined but I'll reward myself once in a while. That's something I've learned about all the food that gets called "junk". All of those things are meant to be treats/rewards. It's actually similar to drinking. It's ok once in awhile in moderation, something that's saved for special occasions. For exercise I keep doing my lifting 3 times a week and running 40 minutes 5 days a week.

Things with the wife have gotten better. I go on walks with her or stay at home with the kids and let her go by herself. Now she doesn't feel so left behind. She's making her progress and I guess that's what I should've done earlier but I couldn't sit and wait for her to be ready. Our sex life has improved 1000% percent I can't imagine how much better things will get 6 months from now. I can't believe she stuck around when I was at my most .

Here's some interesting stuff I've read and saw over the past couple weeks.

The Dirt on Clean Eating


Introduction

by Alan Aragon

Everyone knows the difference between dirty and clean foods, so I don’t have to explain the obvious…or do I? My favorite response to questions about how to eat clean is, “Wash your food.” The biggest problem with discussing foods in these terms is that there’s no clear definition of clean or dirty. The difference might seem obvious, but a closer look shows that it’s far from clear-cut. The confusion is compounded when clean eating is preached as the best way to optimal health and body composition. In this article, I’ll use research and field experience to shed some light on these muddy issues.

The Fickle Nature of Clean

To illustrate the inconsistency of clean through decades, I’ll begin with the 1980’s, widely regarded as the start of the fitness revolution. Through much of the decade, fat (regardless of type) was portrayed by both the academic and lay press as the bad guy. Eating clean in the 80’s was largely characterized by avoiding fat, whether through the plethora of fat-free products, or the vigilant avoidance of all forms of added and naturally occurring fats within foods. Toward the end of the decade, whole grain products were regarded as the foundation of optimal health.

The 1990’s was a decade that dichotomized unsaturated fats as good, and saturated fats as bad. Red meat, egg yolks, and pretty much all sources of dietary cholesterol were to be avoided. Abundant grain consumption was still encouraged, and even more so if the grain product had a low glycemic index (GI). High insulin elevations were considered harmful to health and body composition. Therefore, multiple small meals around the clock was recommended not only to control insulin levels, but also to supposedly raise metabolism.




Moderation is the key. Gorging on fast foods is most certainly not the way…


Clean in the 2000’s was characterized by the beginnings of amnesty toward saturated fat and cholesterol. They no longer were considered as dirty as previously thought; now hydrogenated vegetable oil was the poison. Omega-3 fatty acids from fish and flaxseed were placed on a heavenly pedestal, receiving the more-is-better stamp. Carbohydrate was now seen as a potentially greater threat to dieters than fat. Sugar was particularly unclean, as evidenced by the boom of artificially sweetened, low-carb products.

The present decade has just begun, and eating clean has taken some interesting directions. One is an appeal to imagination about Paleolithic eating habits, which eliminates the consumption of grains, legumes, dairy, added salt, sugar, alcohol, and even certain vegetables. This definition of clean is perhaps the most logically inconsistent one. It emphasizes a prehistoric model, yet many of its proponents take an array of cutting-edge nutritional supplements, and use satellite technology to navigate their drive to the closest parking spot at the gym. Fruits and vegetables have always been a mainstay of clean eating, but pesticide-free produce is now somehow cleaner, pests and all. Another twist in the carbohydrate saga has snowballed as well. Insulin spikes from high-GI carbs were the bane of the 90’s. But now, fructose, a low-GI carbohydrate with minimal effects on insulin response, is now one of the top public enemies.

As you can see, the definition of clean is an elusive target. Are there any common threads among the decades with respect to eating clean? Is there any way to objectively label foods as clean or dirty? Before I get to that, let’s take a look at the concept as it’s been traditionally applied to bodybuilding.
The Dirt on Clean Eating | Wannabebig

Whole article is worth a read. Not gonna lie I didn't understand most of it, but what I did understand was informative.


basic stuff but I still found it interesting.

 

[chargers31]

Ever find yourself at that point where you're on the verge of breaking your diet? Right there at the edge thinking "fukk it I'll just eat the chips and cookies, I'm tired I'll just workout really hard tomorrow and skip today." . It's like a pull, sometimes you feel it and then other times there's no resistance and you breeze right through your goals but then those days show up where that voice pops up telling you quit. It's fine, take a break, have a beer. fukk that though you have to tune that voice out and keep your eyes on the prize

turned 21 this week and will have my first alcoholic drink today then none till I drop weight.

 

[Pool_Shark]

turned 21 this week and will have my first alcoholic drink today then none till I drop weight.

Happy birthday. Yeah have a good time. You can lose weight and drink but for me it was really difficult to do both at the same time. Good luck on the weightloss. If you have questions I can try and answer them or at least direct you to places where you can find the answer.

 

[chargers31]

Happy birthday. Yeah have a good time. You can lose weight and drink but for me it was really difficult to do both at the same time. Good luck on the weightloss. If you have questions I can try and answer them or at least direct you to places where you can find the answer.

did you run outside or on a machine.

 

[Slaimon Khan Shah]

Sorry if I'm cluttering I didn't know where to ask and didn't see anything on google.

When I wake up every morning do I start with zero calories? Does my daily calorie stuff reset after a certain amount of hours or is it after a long sleep?

I start counting my calories from when I wake up until I sleep. A couple of websites I recommend for you to learning about how to lose weight and health in general are www.HealthyMuslim.com and www.Mercola.com